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After receiving an invitation from China, Musk couldn't care about India, which had been waiting for a long time, and came to China in a hurry, just to lobby for the implementation of this new technology in China.
In a show of goodwill, China has opened up a long-standing obstacle for Tesla and them to enter the domestic market. What is the new technology that makes Musk rush here? Is his sincerity enough to impress us to let his new technology be implemented in China?
Musk in the heat of the storm
On the afternoon of April 28, a special plane from the United States arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport, sitting on the plane is a well-known entrepreneur, Musk, the founder of Tesla, as early as April 20, Musk expressed his intention to visit China through social platforms, and many people at the airport have been informed that they came to pick up Musk and welcome his arrival.
Musk has always wanted to visit China again, and this time he received an invitation from the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, so he came directly by special plane, and also released Indian pigeons, which attracted the attention of the Indian media.
Along the way, Musk was not idle, negotiated with many dignitaries, and actively communicated with Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade. Musk's main purpose in coming to China this time is to promote his fully self-driving (FSD) system in China.
In recent years, domestic new energy vehicles have put a lot of pressure on Musk, and the intelligent driving technology used in domestic cars is the lidar technology that he has never looked down on before, and today's domestic cars, Wenjie new M7, Xiaopeng X9, Zeekrypton 007 and other models are equipped with lidar, which also makes Musk intuitively feel the pressure of this technology.
In order for us to allow Tesla to collect driving data in mainland China, and then transmit it abroad for algorithm training for autonomous driving, Musk lowered his posture on this trip, and did not hesitate to let the doves of the Indian Modi government also come, just to promote this matter.
At noon on April 29, Musk's special plane returned from the airport, and Musk returned to the United States, and the entire visit lasted less than 24 hours.
Tesla in the race
On April 29, the official announced that Tesla had passed 4 inspection standards and met all the requirements of the mainland's national automotive data security, becoming the first foreign-funded car company to meet the safety requirements.
Tesla's testing process is carried out in accordance with relevant standards and processes, and Truss has met the relevant regulations for the four security requirements of "anonymization of face information outside the car, default non-collection of cockpit data, in-vehicle processing of cockpit data, and significant notification of processed personal information".
To put it simply, the area where Tesla was previously banned is likely to be lifted in the future.
It can be seen that the results of Musk's visit to China this time are still obvious, and the safety standards meet the regulations, which means that the biggest resistance to Tesla's FSD entering China has disappeared.
So why is he so eager to promote technology? Tesla, a company as big as Tesla, a technology that has not yet matured, should have no impact if it enters the Chinese market a little later.
In fact, there are two reasons why Musk is so eager, the first is that Tesla, as a veteran car company of electric cars, has gradually lost its first-mover advantage in China and even in the world, and if it is not implemented to the Chinese market as soon as possible, according to our creativity, Tesla's market share will further decline.
The second is that Tesla seems to have some small problems in the United States, just recently, the United States auto safety regulators want to find security vulnerabilities as a reason to carry out a new round of investigation into Tesla, he and Trump are very close, he is afraid that the bipartisan struggle will affect the pond fish, to come to China to find a way back.
Tesla, which still needs to be committed
Although Musk attaches great importance to this visit to China, and even postponed the previously agreed trip to India, this does not mean that we don't need to be more attentive to Tesla.
In fact, international trade in recent years has made it more and more clear to the world that India is not a good business environment. Compared with China, India is more labor-intensive, the land is cheaper, and the abundance of raw materials is not inferior to China.
But in fact, there are a large number of poor people in India who can't eat meat, they don't have any spending power, and young people in India are more inclined to cheat money in factories and leave, rather than working in factories, and the local governments of India are even more excessive, swallowing shares and embezzling assets, and investors have been disappointed with India's business environment.
Even if Musk had plans to open a factory in India in the early days, success or failure is still two words, Musk came this time, more or less facing internal and external troubles, and was driven to the shelves, if the environment improves in the future, it is inevitable that Tesla will re-lean to the United States for various reasons.
Since it has taken a fancy to the vast domestic market and a stable environment that treats all world enterprises equally, Tesla also needs to ensure its desire for cooperation through one step at a time, such as in-depth exchanges with Chinese enterprises and common development, so that the road can go further and further.
If Tesla could drive anywhere in China, would you choose to buy it?
Reference:
"Tesla's FSD has passed all 4 requirements for national automotive data security" -Huanqiu.com 2024 -04- 28
"Musk's sudden visit to China after postponing his visit to India for a few days, Indian media pay attention" -Huanqiu.com 2024-04-29
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